They can't or won't remember complex passwords. They frustrate users and IT staff who are forced to deal with the problems they cause. Security professionals get bonuses for this crap. Everyone else pays.
Oh, sure you can *ask* the guys at the factory to lift the lightspeed limit, but Nooooo.... "We'll ruin all the timing in the cards... management says it's the *rules*...we shed too much energy when we leave the dev room and get cold at lunch. Marketing doesn't like the blue glow of cherenkov radiation around the cards."
are unemployed people who've never had to produce any significant work. Everything, spreadsheets, documents, databases, code for all those cute little phones, are still produced on PCs.
Following Microsoft's law of perverse behavior (i.e. If it's obvious, useful and well understood, get rid of it), it should be gone in a year, replaced with a version of the syntactic abomination that is powershell that doesn't support command line behavior and arguments.
As long as web sites pack every possible space with bandwidth sucking animations. As long as refresh is used with wild abandon by incompetent web designers, browsers will appear slow.
I'm in the same boat. Once I looked at the stream of data being sent back to Microsoft, I formatted my remaining laptops with Linux Mint. If I have to use Windows (I only use Windows 7) for a project, I spin it up in a VM.
I see no advantage to Windows 10 whatsoever. It's the spyware that interrupts ("How are you enjoying this App?") or worse, plays sneaky Pete and does things without your permission or actively misleads you (e.g. making the X actually download and install a brand new OS).
No, Microsoft has its agenda, but it's not mine, or any other developer's that I know.
Let them have their OS, all by themselves. Neither I nor my clients give a damn.
And maybe it will be worth my time to look at it, or not. Right now, Linux does everything I need. Unless there's a compelling advantage to Windows 10, then no.
What's the volumetric energy density compared to lithium batteries or liquid hydrocarbons? What's the storage price per unit of energy? How easy is it to scale up production? Is it dependent on rare or difficult to obtain materials?
These questions are the ones that *matter*. All else is detail.
Unless you're the developer. Users will buy the nastiest crap. There's no percentage at all in doing a good job with UI unless a specific large customer demands it.
Once human awarenesses can be uploaded into a networked computer matrix, and these conciouslnesses can be linked to organically grown human(ish) bodies, the differences will blur to the point of irrelevance.
Which is the easiest way to take out the bunker's inhabitants. Bonus points for finding the air intakes and building a nice smoky fire in front, or a pumping in pure C02 or nitrogen.
Extra bonus points for taking out the water supply.
Castles failed in the middle ages. Bunkers will fail now, and for the same reasons.
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Sorry about your spelling and punctuation problems and all the cognitive problems they imply.
They can't or won't remember complex passwords. They frustrate users and IT staff who are forced to deal with the problems they cause. Security professionals get bonuses for this crap. Everyone else pays.
Oh, sure you can *ask* the guys at the factory to lift the lightspeed limit, but Nooooo.... "We'll ruin all the timing in the cards... management says it's the *rules*...we shed too much energy when we leave the dev room and get cold at lunch. Marketing doesn't like the blue glow of cherenkov radiation around the cards."
Whine, whine, whine....
Until they can't be. Or someone in the Davos crowd cobbles up a virus that targets poor people.
Which depressingly, could be done. Make fatal airborne contagious virus. Charge $10K for vaccine or other cure.
Seriously. Why bother with Windows 10 if it's going to spy on your activity?
Why bother with Windows 10?
Why bother with Windows X?
are unemployed people who've never had to produce any significant work. Everything, spreadsheets, documents, databases, code for all those cute little phones, are still produced on PCs.
is to make sure they have no urge to reproduce or continue their existence. In fact, I would install a negative urge to reproduce, just to be sure.
Self replication and a desire for continued existence are the only thing that might motivate AIs to wipe us out.
Oh, and it might be nice to install a desire to never harm us.
As for preventing us from harming ourselves... fuck off, you nanny state wanker.
Following Microsoft's law of perverse behavior (i.e. If it's obvious, useful and well understood, get rid of it), it should be gone in a year, replaced with a version of the syntactic abomination that is powershell that doesn't support command line behavior and arguments.
As long as web sites pack every possible space with bandwidth sucking animations. As long as refresh is used with wild abandon by incompetent web designers, browsers will appear slow.
-- Fund more research in robotics and artificial intelligence in order for the U.S. to maintain its leadership in the global technology industry.
This is crap. The first country that gets human-like scalable AI wins. Period. It wins the wars. It wins the economic race. It wins everything.
The domain of solvable problems may be limited, but humans will never be able to address it as well as effective AI.
All decisions should be made by the invisible hand of the almighty market, blessed be its name and holy $ymbol.
Hail greed! Fuck the country! Countries are so *yesterday* /sarc
Every time I do that, it grows more heads!
Apparently, the future is now.
I'm in the same boat. Once I looked at the stream of data being sent back to Microsoft, I formatted my remaining laptops with Linux Mint. If I have to use Windows (I only use Windows 7) for a project, I spin it up in a VM.
I see no advantage to Windows 10 whatsoever. It's the spyware that interrupts ("How are you enjoying this App?") or worse, plays sneaky Pete and does things without your permission or actively misleads you (e.g. making the X actually download and install a brand new OS).
No, Microsoft has its agenda, but it's not mine, or any other developer's that I know.
Let them have their OS, all by themselves. Neither I nor my clients give a damn.
And maybe it will be worth my time to look at it, or not. Right now, Linux does everything I need. Unless there's a compelling advantage to Windows 10, then no.
There's no compelling reason for his physical presence other than his capture. None.
What's the volumetric energy density compared to lithium batteries or liquid hydrocarbons?
What's the storage price per unit of energy?
How easy is it to scale up production?
Is it dependent on rare or difficult to obtain materials?
These questions are the ones that *matter*. All else is detail.
Or calling level 2 support?
And will continue to, regardless of recent election results.
Global warming? Still happening,
Evolution? That too.
Your favorite invisible friend? Maybe not.
At least as far as bitcoin is concerned.
Wait, what?
Um, capitalism? Employing people in the USA? He's against that?
Now I'm confused again!
And always will be.
Unless you're the developer. Users will buy the nastiest crap. There's no percentage at all in doing a good job with UI unless a specific large customer demands it.
Once human awarenesses can be uploaded into a networked computer matrix, and these conciouslnesses can be linked to organically grown human(ish) bodies, the differences will blur to the point of irrelevance.
Which is the easiest way to take out the bunker's inhabitants. Bonus points for finding the air intakes and building a nice smoky fire in front, or a pumping in pure C02 or nitrogen.
Extra bonus points for taking out the water supply.
Castles failed in the middle ages. Bunkers will fail now, and for the same reasons.